Amid wedding season, New York wants these stricter laws on limos after Schoharie crash

Bethany Nacco, the friend of a family whose loved ones died in a limo crash last October in upstate New York, and Sen. Tim Kennedy, D-Buffalo, urge the state to adopt stronger regulations over the limo industry.
Joseph Spector, Albany Bureau Chief

"I pray that no one in this room, out there, anywhere, ever has to go through anything that any of us up here go through every day," Bethany Nacco, a friend of some who died in the Schoharie crash, said at a state Capitol news conference Thursday.

The bills will now head to the Democrat-controlled Assembly in hopes it will pass them before the legislative session ends for the year on June 19.

"We have an obligation to these families and to all residents of the state of New York, and quite frankly this nation, to improve the safety standards when an individual hires a limousine," Senate Transportation Committee chairman Tim Kennedy, D-Buffalo, said.